I Was Really, Because I Thought It

If You're A Fat Person - And Especially If You're A Woman - At All Stages Of Your Life You'll Get Abuse For It, So You Have To Work Out A Way Of Dealing With It. The Best Way Is To Be Humorous About It - That Defuses Any Tension.

There Are Problems With Nursing - Such As The Issue Of Nurses All Having To Do Degrees These Days. But That Doesn’t Mean To Say The Entire Infrastructure Of Nursing Is Falling About And That It Is Populated By Unfeeling Psychopaths, Which Is, Frankly, The Implication Sometimes.

You Don't Really See Ugly People That Are Old, Or A Bit Grotty And Smelly, In The Media. If A Martian Came Down, They Would Think We Were All Tall, Thin, Attractive And Wealthy.

For A Long Time, People Assumed I Was Gay, So When I Got Married The Press Were All A Bit Shocked And Made A Big Deal Of It - And Ditto When I Had Children. I Felt Very Much Under The Microscope With Paps Outside The House Taking Pictures Of Me Getting The Baby Out Of The Car, It Was Excruciating. I Remember Getting Her Out Of The Car Seat And Thinking 'oh God I'm Going To Drop Her And They're Going To Take A Picture'. I Was So Nervous. Those Sorts Of Things Are Really Hard.

My Mum Taught Me To Knit When I Was A Child, And I Turn To It, For Some Weird Reason, When I'm Feeling Depressed.